WRU boss Gareth Davies says Welsh rugby is being dragged down by a culture of ‘everybody having a pop at everybody else’.

Davies says the biggest lesson he took from the All Blacks tour last month was sitting down with New Zealand rugby’s top brass and learning how the game in their country runs so smoothly from top to bottom.

And having taken charge of the Union in October 2014, just a couple of months after the bitter civil war between the WRU and Welsh regions ended in a £60m peace deal, Davies has announced plans to bring further harmony to the Welsh game.

“The one big word I take out of what New Zealand do well having sat down for talks with their chief executive, chairman and performance guys is alignment. Everybody knows exactly where they fit into the equation and I think we have to set out to do that,” Davies told the BBC.

“Very often we get the Welsh set-up criticising the regions, the regions criticising the Welsh set-up, the Premiership complaining about the regions.

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“We need to get everybody on the same page talking together. There hasn’t been that much coming together which everybody now recognises.

“We’re putting a plan in place to make sure everybody is on that same page.

“We still have to deliver that plan, which will be tough as well.

“Unless we’re all aligned we’ve got no chance of delivering it.

“We’ve got to get together in order to drive the game forward.

“I think there’s a will to do it.

“The bad old days have gone to a great extent.”

With Wales losing all three Tests to the reigning world champions and also a midweek clash with an under-strength Chiefs side, Davies admits bridging the gulf in class between the All Blacks is more a global rugby problem than just a mission for Wales.

“Often critics point the finger at Wales saying they can’t compete with them but look what has happened in Super Rugby recently which is the biggest barometer of all.

“When you had the Crusaders putting 80 points on the Melbourne Rebels, you had Australia’s best provincial team, the Brumbies, losing by over 40 points to the Blues, who are New Zealand’s weakest team, you had the Chiefs winning in the Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, by over 50 points and then you had either the Hurricanes or Highlanders beating the Waratahs in Sydney by 30 points.

Gethin Jenkins after the second Test defeat in New Zealand (Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)

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“That to me is probably more stark than the Welsh results in terms to where New Zealand are and where the rest of the world needs to catch up is on that intensity, fitness level and skill levels.

“While disappointing it was also a joy in many ways to watch the All Blacks play rugby.”

A global season has been one of the ideas put forward to even up the playing field with a suggestion the Six Nations Championship could be moved to a little later in the domestic calendar.

And Davies says a Six Nations meeting is scheduled for the end of this month when the dates of future championships is on the agenda as is bonus points and whether the Six Nations should be a closed shop.

Davies said: “Is it worth moving it? Do we look at bonus points which people have asked for to make it more exciting scoring tries and is it a closed shop for Six Nations?

“Do we open the gates to Georgia, Romania or anyone else deemed worthy of being in there.

“All those are up for grabs but for moving the Six Nations I don’t see it as a problem if it helps other things.

“We’ve got a meeting at the end of the month to see where the Six Nations sits.”